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Bodywall, side one

Bodywall, side twoAnd here they are at a party!


Bodywall, drywall, 2x4s, silk, hair, potato dextrin, paint, latex.

Like anyone who is out of food and ideas, I am going to end with some haikus:

The last days of my
Seventh set of finals I
Hid under my bed.

Decided to change
Thesis to ridiculing
Myself and my work.

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